Kenya second in Africa in mobile Internet

Thirty-nine per cent of Kenyans access the Internet through their mobile phones only, a new report has shown.

The report, GlobalWebIndex on Trends 2018, ranked Kenya behind Nigeria in having the highest number of digital consumers whose only access to the Internet is through their mobile handsets.

Forty-one per cent of Nigerians access the Internet using their mobile phone only, the highest fraction in Africa. Kenya leads globally in share of Internet traffic coming from mobile phones. According to Jumia Mobile Week White Paper – 2018, high mobile penetration is driven by accessibility to affordable smartphones from China.